Re: Documentation

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Jason Pincin wrote:

> We still need to develop a list of things that we would like documented.
> I'm hoping you guys can start the ball on that... 
> 

- Determine Milestones (ie. what features will be available for beta)

- Generate a comprehensive list of technical issues we currently have 
some examples:
	- Excessive DB queries for front page
	- Lack of scaleabilty
	- Performance of PHP for backend use
	- Complications due to use of PHP and Perl on front end
	- Lack of integration of search engine and web site

- Generate a list of possible software we can use to fix the above (BLADE,
UdmSearch, custom Apache modules in C/Perl, etc) 

- Assign people to research these technologies and generate reports on
their feasibility

- Determine primary language to write CORBA backend in: Python, C++, etc

- Generate a list of features and their priority that our site will have.
I'm not talking about backend features, rather features that the users
will see on the front end.  Once these features are flushed out, we can
then evaluate the order/requirements for the backend features.

- Continue documentation of PHP Objects & Actions

- Pre-Define CORBA Objects & Actions

- Write Specs for all web forms/actions.  What fields, what they're for,
what the actions should(n't) do with them.  No work on a form/action
should be done until it has been spec'd and approved.

> I have been working on documenting my thoughts for OODS further.  But that
> doesn't deal with what we have now.  What do you guys believe should be on
> the list?

I think we all should ignore OODS until after Beta.

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